ITOps Times news digest: IBM acquires Nordcloud, Sysdig achieves SOC Type II Compliance, and Palo Alto Networks helping mitigate SolarWinds vulnerability
IBM has announced it is acquiring European cloud company Nordcloud to further its cloud migration capabilities. Prior to the acquisition, Nordcloud provided its customers with cloud implementation, transformation, and managed services. “Our clients are increasingly taking a more holistic approach to application modernization that allows them to operate across a traditional IT environment, private cloud … continue reading
Google donates $3 million in cloud credits to CNCF to support Kubernetes
Google Cloud is continuing to help fund the Kubernetes project, which it initially created, by donating $3 million in cloud computing credits to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the organization that currently maintains the project. This grant is a continuation of the company’s behavior since 2018, when it started its commitment of investing $3 … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Lens
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Lens, which is an IDE for Kubernetes. It can be used to handle operations, monitoring, development, and debugging in Kubernetes environments. “Lens provides the full situational awareness for everything that runs in Kubernetes. It’s lowering the barrier of entry for people just getting started and radically improving productivity for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Lynx acquires ITSourceTEK, JetStream DR, and Insyde’s Supervyse Memory/FP
Security company Lynx Technology Partners has announced it is acquiring ITSourceTEK, which is a provider of security threat detection and resolution solutions. The acquisition will enable Lynx Technology Partners to provide a “vertically integrated view of risk” from an organization’s security strategy through its operations. “ITSourceTEK’s security product technical knowledge will bolster our already robust … continue reading
Bugcrowd report reveals 65% increase in discovery of high-risk vulnerabilities this year
Crowdsourced security has seen a boom this year as Bugcrowd saw a 50% increase in submissions on its platform in the last 12 months, according to its latest Priority One report. Bugcrowd provides a platform for ethical hackers around the world to help organizations maximize their security. The study revealed a 65% increase from the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, Tufin supports Google Cloud Platform, and Trend Micro’s cloud-native file storage security
Mirantis has announced the release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes. This is a part of the company’s planned series of Kubernetes enhancements to its Mirantis Cloud Native Platform. Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes provides an environment for hosting legacy and modern apps. Use cases include network functions virtualization, mobile network operations, and large-scale scientific computing. “Organizations … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CrowdSec
This week’s highlighted open-source project is CrowdSec, which is a new tool that takes a crowdsourced approach to security automation. It uses a combination of local IP detection and an online community-based IP reputation system to protect networks. According to the team, the tool goes through logs to assess the behavior of IP addresses that … continue reading
Why OpenTelemetry is here to stay
It is no longer possible to instrument the world. Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion of software development. With that growing interest has come an ever-diversifying, fractal landscape of widely shared software libraries. Applying these shared libraries makes up most of modern programming. This has been a wonderful experience, but there’s … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: New Relic acquires Pixie Labs, Infosys Modernization Suite, and Element Unify
Application monitoring company New Relic has announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Pixie Labs. Pixie Labs is a provider of a Kubernetes observability platform that lets users set all of their applications’ metrics, events, logs, and traces from a single CLI command. New Relic also announced it will be offering a self-managed version … continue reading
BackupAssist Classic v11 Launches to Help Ensure Cybercrime Resilience
BackupAssist®, the leading provider of automated backup and recovery software for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), today announced the general availability (GA) launch of BackupAssist Classic® version 11 (v11). Engineered to aid clients in remaining at the forefront of cybercrime resilience, BackupAssist v11 includes critical enhancements across its CryptoSafeGuard® ransomware solution, password protection, and S3 compatible destinations, as well … continue reading
xMatters announces new adaptive incident management features
xMatters’ new adaptive incident management feature advancements provide increased automation across each stage of the incident management lifecycle – diagnosis and collaboration, resolution and post-incident learning. An increase in the number of change-related incidents and the furious speed of new software releases demand more automation be applied across the incident management lifecycle to accelerate actions. … continue reading
Gartner’s top trends for I&O in 2021
As organizations come to realize that employees likely will continue working remotely even after vaccines for the coronavirus are administered, the need for operations to happen remotely is among the six top trends Gartner has identified for infrastructure and operations (I&O) in 2021. “The coronavirus pandemic has forced IT executives to adapt their operations to … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.20 now available
The third Kubernetes release of the year, Kubernetes 1.20, is now available. In this release, 11 enhancements moved to stable, 15 moved to beta, and 16 are entering alpha. According to the release team, this is one of the most feature-dense Kubernetes releases in a while. “What you can takeaway from this is that Kubernetes’ … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Gluware 4.0, Axis Security’s Application Access Cloud, and Amazon S3 update
Gluware 4.0 is now available with an expanded feature set. The network automation platform added capabilities to help network teams automate management, maintenance, and security of increasing complex, mission-critical networks. It features a new multi-engine architecture to help automate network functions. Gluware 4.0 also introduces a new SaaS model that simplifies the user onboarding and … continue reading
